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Using three core ideas--the hybridity of identities, multilayered spaces and the porousness of borders, and the structural contradiction between community and market/state system, this critical urban social theory argues that the complex experiences in cities still contribute to the deepening of radical democracy in a multicultural society.

Kian Tajbakhsh teaches Urban Policy and Politics at the New School for Social Research

Acknowledgments

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Preface

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Introduction: Identity, Structure, and the Spaces of the City

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Marxian Class Analysis, Essentialism, and the Problem of Urban Identity